SAM AND THE GLASS PALACE
By Norman Cook
Day One. 96 pages. £5.00
ISBN 1 903087 42 2
This is an exciting adventure story for children aged 10 years and upwards. It is set in Victorian London, at the time when the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, moved by his Christian convictions, entered Parliament to tackle many of the social ills of the time.
In particular, he was so concerned about the starving, homeless street children who were being exploited by gangs of thieves, that he started what became known as the ‘Ragged Schools’.
